Welcome to the schedule for BBF 2016! Please note that with the exception of the following sessions (Life without Envy, The Art of Perspective, Writing with Risk, Sound Advice, and Lore), absolutely every session at the BBF is free, and no tickets or preregistration are required. Thanks, and enjoy your day!

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Author Christopher Castellani will perform the first page of YOUR unpublished manuscript for the audience and a panel of three literary agent judges: Sorche Fairbank, Katherine Flynn, and Amaryah Orenstein. When one agent hears a line that would prompt her to stop reading, she will raise her hand. The reader will keep reading until a second agent raises her hand. The agents will then discuss why the lines gave them pause and offer suggestions to the author. All excerpts are read and evaluated anonymously. Note to participants: Please bring THE FIRST 250 WORDS of your manuscript double-spaced, titled, with its genre (fiction or nonfiction only, please) marked clearly at the top. Given the volume of submissions, we can’t guarantee that yours will be read aloud. This session is not for the thin-skinned! Sponsored by GrubStreet.

Christopher Castellani is an acclaimed author, educator, and recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. He is the artistic director of GrubStreet, one of the country’s leading nonprofit creative writing centers, and serves on the faculty and academic boards of the Warren Wilson MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. His novels include A Kiss from Maddalena, winner of the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award; The Saint of... Read More →

Sorche Fairbank established Fairbank Literary Representation in 2002 and has since represented best-selling authors, Edgar recipients, award-winning journalists, and debut authors. She is a member of AAR, the Author’s Guild, and The Agents’ Roundtable. Her clients can be found with major publishers, as well as in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Granta, Best American Short Stories, and more.
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Katherine Flynn is a partner at the Kneerim & Williams Agency and has previously worked for the Sanford Greenburger Agency, taught literature and composition, and edited history textbooks. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Brown and represents history, biography, current affairs, science, business, and narrative nonfiction.
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Amaryah Orenstein is the founder of GO Literary, a Boston-based boutique agency. Through her work, she aims to give voice to a broad range of perspectives, representing a wide array of fiction and nonfiction that tackles big issues in engaging, accessible, and even surprising ways. She also serves as co-president of the Boston chapter of the Women’s National Book Association.
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